Reincarnation Of The Strongest Spirit Master

"You got balls, I'll give you that!"

"I'm just stating facts," William shrugged, didn't care about the heavy pressure coming at him from that enemy of his, "you want to embarrass yourself. And I won't stop you. But you are going to waste my time, and I can't let that happen."

"You… You are a cancer in the academy, a black stain in our long history filled with pride and great deeds!"

"Stop fooling yourself, old man," William crossed his arms, speaking in a calm and confident tone, "you and I know pretty well who the real stain is."

"I'm going to kill you!" Guo couldn't believe that a kid, an eight years kid, one who lived his past two years serving others and listening to orders without questions, dared to point such an accusation towards him in such an obvious way!

Even the headmaster himself, the one who knew Guo's true colours, never dared to expose him in the public like what William here did.

"I dare you to try," and just before Guo would release all his power, Sang shouted, and in the next instant the entire place changed.

Many silhouettes flashed and appeared from everywhere. They didn't care about the mansion and broke through the walls to arrive here.

William didn't know what the old Sang did, but it seemed that the old man activated some sort of emergency beacon, calling in all of his masters who rushed here without a speck of hesitation.

Old Guo looked around, eyeing everyone here as a trapped beast looking at its hunters. "Good… That's good, old Sang," he heavily said, before his body started to fade in a fast way, "I want to see how you plan to protect him forever!"

"Humph, if anything happened to him, then I promise you that your entire clan will be flattened with the ground at the same day," old Sang didn't show any sign of distress or weakness and responded to such a threat with another.

William knew he wasn't alone here. And that was part of the reasons behind his daring actions towards that enemy of his.

It felt great to take a bite back at enemies when they tried to bite him. "William, you provoked him greatly this time," and when Guo vanished completely from here, Sang's face showed a dark look as he spoke in a caring tone towards William.

But the latter knew even if he remained silent, Guo and others wouldn't let him live his life in peace.

"He is just all talk," William shrugged, showing his clear attitude of not caring about what Guo might do towards him.

"Just be careful and don't leave the clan for now," Sang didn't know how this kid's mind worked, but he still added in warning, "that man is a viper! A toxic snake who lurks in the darkness and bites when you are at your lowest point."

"Thanks headmaster," William cupped his hands, showing his gratitude towards such caring words. 'I know my enemies are strong, and the only way to survive isn't by lying low, but to do everything to become as strong as them, or even better.'

He thought to himself before leaving the Forging department. As for the masters who rushed here, most had puzzled expressions on their faces.

All but the old man William met at the doors of the department didn't recognise him. But William didn't lurk around any longer and left all the explanation for Sang and Ellina to do.

"It seems that competition is very important…" William got such valuable intel from the weird actions of that Guo dude.

If such competition was something normal, then Guo wouldn't have come here and tried such dirty methods of issuing threats to expel William from leading the team.

"What's special about that competition? And what's special about that forging team?"

William was lost in such thoughts until he returned back to his home. There he expected to see Berry's face but for the next few hours, she didn't appear.

"Ah, I forgot that she went to train," William hit his forehead when he recalled this. She wouldn't come here today, and tomorrow was their promised day to go to the classes.

"Others will return tonight. And that means Lang will attend the classes with me tomorrow. As for Kong…"

William recalled how Kong tried to avoid associating himself with him before. He used the excuse of having tons of work at the Forging department to not meet William.

William took such an excuse as a way to evade him. But after knowing how important the upcoming competition would be, he realised Kong might be really busy preparing for the competition.

"I will pay him a visit at the Forging department in a few days then," William decided as he finished his meal, went to his room, and slept.

Tomorrow was going to be a very important day to him. It was his first day in the academy as a true disciple, the first day ever to attend classes as a formal disciple, and the first chance to meet up with Guanin and others of his gang.

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In a place that was far away from William, a door of a vast meeting hall opened, and an eight years old kid passed through it.

"Patriarch, you called for me?"

The place was dimly lit with candles. They weren't like the green light candles William used to use, but these candles were black in colour, emitted a light of dark bronze that added a weird touch to the entire place.

The walls were covered all from the ground up to the ceiling with different degrees of bronze colours. There were many old looking portraits hanging on the walls, showing the looks of fierce men and women, all old, all with eyes that were painted in bronze.